Cubs fans luckily in the dark as Marmol blows Lilly’s gem.

 

 

Those of you gluttons for punishment, feel free to watch what we all missed due to more ‘technical difficulties’ from ‘Comcast SportsNet Chicago alternate programming’, or whatever ****** station to which the Cubs were relegated yet again this evening. There are ALWAYS audio issues on CSN+, as the broadcasters are overmodulated 100% of the time. You know what I mean. It sounds like Len & Bob are slightly underwater at the beginning until your ears adjust.

But now, it seems audio problems weren’t enough, as we lost video for most of the 9th inning, too. Not that it was worth seeing. Marmol hit the leadoff man (natch) and then the Brewers manufactured the win with a stolen base, an intentional walk, a slow, broken-bat fielder’s choice to move the runners up and a base hit (by a Cubs castoff) to drive in two.

‘No Tickets’ Ricketts will be happy to know the commercials worked just fine, though.

It would be nice if the Cubs had a television station of their own where you could always actually find the game and equally depend on the quality of the broadcast. Something like, you know, a superstation. Too bad the quasi-popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer & 7th Heaven put an end to that virtual nirvana quite a few years ago.

Somewhere Arne Harris is spinning in his mausoleum.





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